{"id":2067,"date":"2011-08-18T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2011-08-18T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:34:12","slug":"senate-recall-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Senate Recall Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-898\" title=\"election day\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"election day\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/election-day.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nine Wisconsin State Senate recall elections have been held, and Republicans will have a\u00a0slim one-vote majority in the Senate after losing two seats on August 9. Republican incumbents Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) and Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) were defeated by their Democratic challengers, Jessica King and State Representative Jennifer Schilling, respectively. Democratic incumbents Jim Holperin (D-Conover) and Robert Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie) easily defeated challengers Kim Simac and Jonathan Steitz, respectively, on August 16, and Democratic Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) defeated challenger David VanderLeest on July 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wptschedule.org\/hereandnowupdate\/?p=147\">Pundits believe<\/a> that the election results give more power to moderate Senator Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center). Shultz was the only Republican to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/senate\/sen17\/news\/Press\/2011\/pr2011-003.asp\">vote against<\/a> Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s controversial budget repair bill in March, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.learfielddemos.com\/2011\/02\/23\/schultz-says-hell-still-offer-amendment\/\">spoke out<\/a> in favor of reinstating collective bargaining rights for public workers after a two years during the budget deliberations in February. His proposal never gained widespread support and was not introduced on the senate floor. In fact, Schultz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/126812103.html\">recently suggested<\/a> that he was called to Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s office in an effort to prevent him from introducing the amendment. Schultz and all thirteen Democratic senators missed a crucial vote that moved the bill past the stage at which it could be amended. More recently, Schultz has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/127621548.html\">working with<\/a> Democratic Senator Tim Cullen of Janesville to promote bipartisanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Wisconsin State Senate recall elections have been held, and Republicans will have a\u00a0slim one-vote majority in the Senate after losing two seats on August 9. Republican incumbents Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) and Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) were defeated&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2067\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[47,6],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-recall-elections","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}